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What is a triptych?

What is a triptych? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (art) A picture or series of pictures painted on three tablets connected by hinges.
  2. (philately) A set of three se-tenant postage stamps that form a composite picture.
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A delicate paper triptych titled Menstruation Carnations used pencil and blood to define three starkly outlined, centralized flowers.
While not as powerful as their influential triptych, these two films are still overripe offerings of cinematic salaciousness.
His story is part of a triptych of stories that make up the plot of this novel.
Maazel has previously written a pleasant violin concerto and an orchestral triptych.
By no means am I insisting that these three paintings literally constitute a triptych, religious or otherwise.
It is therefore difficult even for an expert to recognize if a single sheet print was originally part of a diptych or a triptych.

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